Biography
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen is associate professor at the History Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam and is the EuroClio Endowed Chair Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University. He is co-lead of the research cluster Heritage & Identity and is executive director of the Center for Historical Culture.
He received his PhD cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2013. Adriaansen's research focuses on historical culture and historical consciousness, in the past and in the present. In 2015 he published the monograph The Rhythm of Eternity: The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933 (Berghahn, 2015). His current research focuses on the impact of digitization on historical consciousness, historical culture, and history education.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Associate professor | Department of History
- adriaansen@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Digitalisering en historische cultuur: Internet memes als multimodale historische analogieën - [link]
- Lise Zurné & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Immersed in the past.: What historical re-enactment reveals about rules and boundaries - The Sociological Review Magazine - doi: 10.51428/tsr.zgaf5356
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Multimodal meaning-making: How social media shapes students’ historical understanding - Teaching History, 58 (2), 40-43 - [link]
- Robbert Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Latent and explicit mnemonic communities on social media: studying digital memory formation through hashtag co-occurrence analysis - Memory, Mind and Media, 3 - doi: 10.1017/mem.2024.7 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Pieter van Leeuwen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - De Historisch Didactische Collectie
- Kaya de Wolff & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Digitale und globale Erinnerungskulturen als Ausgangspunkt einer selbstreflexiven Pädagogik des Zuhörens - forum erwachsenenbildung, 57 (1), 20-24 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - From Concept to Classroom: Historical Consciousness and History Education - Passato e Presente, XLII (123), 72-90 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Swipen door de tijd: historische representatie op sociale media - Kleio: Tijdschrift van de Vereniging van Geschiedenisleraren in Nederland, 65 (1), 28-33
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Pieter van Leeuwen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - The history didactics collection / De historisch didactische collectie
- Berrie Vugts, Matthijs Holwerda, Sam de Vries, Ronald van Raak, Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Cora Boele, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Herman Gerritsen, Rob Grim, Frea Haandrikman, Rosalba Icaza, Lucinda Jones, Roman Koot, Faye Kruithof, Pieter van Leeuwen, Paul Plaatsman, Coleta Platenkamp, Elsbeth van der Ploeg, Jolla Schelling, Hanneke Takkenberg, Tina van der Vlies & Berrie Vugts (2024) - The living library: Stories from the collections of the Erasmus University Library
- Robyn Murning & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Paradoxical legacies and unattainable futures: South Africa’s national self-narrative and the haunting of gender-based violence in the post-transitional era - Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 48 (2), 113–139 - doi: 10.38140/sjch.v48i2.7062 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Analogías y conciencia histórica. Lecciones generadas por los usuarios en TikTok
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Historische re-enactment als simulatie van het verleden
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Historisches Reenactment als Simulation der Vergangenheit
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Dark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aesthetic - International Public History, 5 (2), 105-114 - doi: 10.1515/iph-2022-2047 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Historical Analogies and Historical Consciousness: User-Generated History Lessons on TikTok - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-10743-6_3 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Conceptualizing the Period Rush: Ludic Dimensions of Immersive History in Historical Reenactment - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Smiling in Auschwitz: Instagram Selfies and Historical Representation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum - doi: 10.4324/9781003264460-11
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 September 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 September 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (1 July 2023) - De la Compagnie des Indes aux supertankers: le fabuleux destin historique de Rotterdam
- RJ (Robbert-Jan) Adriaansen (30 September 2021) - A party holiday and a philosophical book complement each other
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (22 June 2018) - De Ochtendspits
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & JR Stackhouse (1 January 2017) - The Rhythm of Eternity
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies & Naomi Oosterman (2025) - H&I Research Cluster Meeting with Naomi Oosterman on policing cultural heritage (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Negende Nationale Geschiedenisonderwijscongres: Rampen in de Geschiedenis (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Internet Memes as Multimodal Analogies: Analogical Reasoning and Participatory History in the Subreddit r/HistoryMemes (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Oorlog en herinnering op sociale media: Kansen en uitdagingen voor vredes- en herinneringseducatie (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies & Rik Smit (2025) - Digital Activism in the Future Past (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - The Instrumentalization of History Education (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Iwona Gusc, Tina van der Vlies, Chiel Rozendaal, Han Entzinger, Jeanine Quene & Gijsbert Oonk (2025) - Award Ceremony and Research Seminar – Han Entzinger Master’s Thesis Award 2024 (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Maria Grever, Pieter Huistra, Herman Paul & Martin Bossenbroek (2025) - RNW Theory of History – Lecture Martin Bossenbroek: ‘Transitional Justice tussen oriëntalisme en occidentalisme: de Nederlandse casus’ (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies & Carola Hein (2024) - Water Heritage and Identity (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - The "Golden Age": An Introduction to Conceptual History and Labelling (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Technologically Augmented Scholarship? Ethical Considerations for the Use of Large Language Models in Historical Research (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - Heritage in Brazil (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Achtste Nationale Geschiedenisonderwijscongres: Oorlog en Europa (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Het verleden op je scherm: Sociale media en het geschiedenisonderwijs (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional
Universiteit Gent
- Start date approval
- February 2025
- End date approval
- August 2027
- Place
- GENT
- Description
- Bijzonder hoogleraar
Honours Degree Programme
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4200B
Qualitative Historical Methods
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2227
Philosophy of History
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2229
Hist. Cult. in a Glob. World
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4001
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4052
History, Memory and National Identity
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4234
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4050
Honours Degree Programme
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4200
